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Narratives of the Unspoken in Contemporary Irish Fiction

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This Open access book is a collection of essays and offers an in-depth analysis of silence as an aesthetic practice and a textual strategy which paradoxically speaks of the unspoken nature of many inconvenient hidden truths of Irish society in the work of contemporary fiction writers. The study acknowledges Ireland’s history of damaging silences and considers its legacies, but it also underscores how silence can serve as a valuable, even productive, means of expression. From a wide range of critical perspectives, the individual essays address, among other issues, the conspiracies of silence in Catholic Ireland, the silenced structural oppression of Celtic Tiger Ireland, the recovery of silenced stories/voices of the past and their examination in the present, as well as millennial disaffection and the silencing of vulnerability in today’s neoliberal Ireland. The book ’s attention to silence provides a rich vocabulary for understandingwhat unfolds in the quiet interstices of Irish writing from recent decades. This study also invokes the past to understand the present and, thus, demonstrates the continuities and discontinuities that define how silence operates in Irish culture.

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Series Title

New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature

Call Number

XIX, 246

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan Cham : Palgrave Macmillan Cham., 2023

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Language

English

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978-3-031-30455-2

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text

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computer

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online resource

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1

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Contemporary Literature
History of Britain and Ireland

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M. Teresa Caneda-Cabrera, José Carregal-Romero

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https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-30455-2

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30455-2

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